Posts Tagged ‘Metropolitan Museum of Art’

Catholic fashion exhibit more popular than Tutankhamun

Monday, October 15th, 2018

The Catholic fashion exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art attracted over 1.5 million visitors between 10 May and 8 October. “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” has beaten the museum’s record for the institution’s best-attended show. The record had been held since the 1978 presentation of “Treasures of Tutankhamun,” which drew 1.4 Read more

Versace, Vogue and the Vatican – vestments on show

Thursday, March 1st, 2018

Fashion icons Versace and Vogue have joined forces with the Vatican to showcase the Church’s influence on fashion. Liturgical vestments with intricate patchworks of gold and silver thread embroidery, jewelled mitres and historic papal tiaras (one comprising 18,000 diamonds) have been provided for the exhibition by the Sistine Chapel sacristy. In all, raiment from 15 Read more